6.8 SPC

[Gthphtm]

Anyone using the Remington 6.8 SPC round for deer hunting.If so any luck with it.

[irish_redneck]

not yet , but planning on getting an upper for my ar in this caliber , technically it looks perfect.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Same basic ballistics as a 30-30. It works great on deer.

[astrohog]

I use the 6.8 SPC for hunting Whitetail. Killed two ~120lb deer with the Hornady 120 SST. First one was hit in the top of the heart and only went about 30yds, and I spli the heart into 3 pieces. The other was a double lung and there was a very good blood trail and it went about 50yds. Both were shot at about 75yds.

Check out 68forums.com if you want more information this round. The consus is that the 6.8 spec 2 chamber is better than the SAMMI chamber and that either chamer is good on whitetail out to 300yds.

68forums has a hunting section and some guys are using it for elk and caribou.

[ants]

From what i have heard, and read, its a damn good deer round

[bkln]

Either that or .300 Blackout, everything ex-changeable from AR-15 but the barrel....blackout is hard to find these days and 6.8 SPC is still too pricey IMO, good rounds for deer anyway....

[waterweasle]

havent really thought about the 6.8 round except for having someone wanting to trade an upper with me, turned him down...............I am planning oan 6.5grendel upper in the near future though

[irish_redneck]

anyone looked at .300 blackout or even a 7.62x39?

[astrohog]

I do not have experience with the blackout, but the general "internet" consensus is that it is best at subsonic/suppressed.

The only complaints I have heard about the x39 is the lack of hunting bullets and the case head is large causing broken bolts in AR15's.

The grendel and spc are neck and neck, but the .mil has done lots of testing on the 6.8mm bullets and they have better terminal performance than the 6.5mm bullets.

check this out:

http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2008Intl/Roberts.pdf

pg14 has a some good info on the 6.5, x39, and 6.8.